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Byline: By, Mia O'Hare The award-winning writer of The King's Speech, David Seidler has died aged 87. The Academy Award winner passed away on Saturday, while he was fly-fishing in [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries David Seidler, the screenwriter, who has died aged 86, was inspired by his experiences of struggling with a childhood stammer to write the true story of how [...]

Byline: By, Hannah Roberts Berkshire is home to many beautiful walks -one of which is enjoyed by an Oscar-award winner who grew up in Slough. Gareth Ellis-Unwin was invited onto [...]

Byline: Louise Jury and Alistair Foster BRITISH wit and class trumped the multi-billion-dollar budgets of Hollywood as The King's Speech triumphed at this year's Academy Awards. The movie, made for [...]

Byline: Carrie Rickey Feb. 28--Oscar bowed four times for The King's Speech at the 83d Academy Awards in Hollywood on Sunday night. The film about the stuttering sovereign was named [...]

Byline: Carrie Rickey Oscar bowed four times for 'The King's Speech' Sunday night at the 83rd Academy Awards in Hollywood. The one about the stuttering sovereign won best picture, acting [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED LOS ANGELES -- ''The King's Speech,'' the period drama about King George VI of Britain and his vocal coach, won best picture and three other trophies at the [...]

Byline: John Beifuss Feb. 27--The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences represents about 5,570 Oscar voters. Big whoop. Last year, close to 1,100 amateur Oscar voters participated in The [...]

Byline: STEVE PERSALL; TIMES FILM CRITIC My head hurts, like someone went Inception on me or Micky Ward caught me with a left hook. - It happens every year around [...]

What makes a good year at the Oscars? Great films? Yes and no - what really counts is the talk. That probably makes this year's Academy Awards, the 83rd ceremony, [...]

Byline: Steven Rea Feb. 27--Predicting the Academy Awards is serious business. If you come up with the right picks on, say, 22 of the 24 nominations, and you're betting through [...]

Byline: Catherine Shoard The odds are that Tom Hooper won't be named best director this Sunday. What that will make him, by default, is the year's most discreet one. For [...]

Byline: DALE M. POLLOCK I sat there staring at my Oscar ballot, trying to figure out what I really thought the best movies of 2010 were. That is a situation [...]

Byline: Louise Jury , Alistair Foster Supporting husband: Bonham Carter and Tim Burton at the W hotel HELENA BONHAM CARTER paid tribute to her mother Elena as she dedicated her [...]

Byline: Catherine Shoard When The King's Speech picked up 14 Bafta nominations in January, even its most loyal courtiers blushed at such a comprehensive royal flush. Tom Hooper's monarch-ish drama [...]

Byline: Mark Brown, Arts correspondent It was never the most obvious subject for a thrilling, gets-you-there drama - a bumbling king and his wretched speech impediment - but the story [...]

Byline: Mark Brown, Arts correspondent It was never the most obvious subject for a thrilling, gets-you-there drama - a reluctant king's treatment for his wretched speech impediment - but the [...]

Byline: Mark Brown Arts correspondent It was never the most obvious subject for a thrilling, gets-you-there drama - a reluctant king's treatment for his wretched speech impediment - but the [...]

Byline: Johanna Thomas-Corr A PHOTOGRAPH of King George VI looks over the table in York & Albany where Tom Hooper, the most successful British film director of the moment, is [...]

The Social Network. The King's Speech. Black Swan. True Grit. A handful of days to go, now, until we finally find out who leaves with what from the 2011 Baftas. [...]

Byline: LIAM LACEY BEHIND THE SCREENS llacey@globeandmail.com What a difference a week makes. Before the Jan. 25 Oscar nomination announcements, almost everyone expected The Social Network to be a sure [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles LOS ANGELES -- Suddenly, The Social Network's status is underdog. In less than two weeks, David Fincher's profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has gone from best-picture [...]

LOS ANGELES- There were no surprises in the movie categories at the Screen Actors Guild awards, which on Sunday night bestowed prizes on all the expected hopefuls: Melissa Leo and [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED LOS ANGELES -- It is the king's to lose. Dual victories by ''The King's Speech'' at a pair of closely watched awards ceremonies over the weekend have put [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED LOS ANGELES -- ''The King's Speech'' collected an impressive 12 Oscar nominations last week. It might have stopped short of a dozen without help from a British entrepreneur [...]

LOS ANGELES - The Oscar race turned into a wild scramble on Tuesday morning, as ''The King's Speech'' moved out front when nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced. [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles LOS ANGELES -- The king, it turns out, isn't ready to give up his crown. In a surprise win, The King's Speech took the top prize Saturday [...]

Byline: Alistair Foster COLIN FIRTH will face competition from newcomer Andrew Garfield for the prize of best actor at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. They are among a dazzling [...]

Byline: Shane Danielson You've heard, by now, the scandal about The King's Speech, haven't you? How Colin Firth ruthlessly elbowed Paul Bettany aside to secure the role that has positioned [...]

Byline: Susan Kelly Nominations for film ensemble: *Black Swan *The Fighter *The Kids Are All Right *The King's Speech *The Social Network The rest of the nominations, 2D The lanes [...]

The union which allows actors to get unemployment has announced its favorite performances of the year. The Screen Actors Guild gave high marks to ''The Fighter'' and ''King's Speech,'' which [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles LOS ANGELES -- The Golden Globes have never been much of an Oscar predictor, but Tuesday's scattershot nominations indicate an awards race that's unusually nip and tuck [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Golden Globe voters predictably circled around ''The King's Speech'' on Tuesday, nominating that highly praised period drama about a stuttering King George VI for seven trophies, including [...]

Oscar season is in sight and the forelock-tugging has begun in earnest. For some reason, whenever a new film featuring the British monarchy appears, audiences genuflect in front of it. [...]

The Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award, a prize that has sometimes served as a bellwether for future success at the Academy Awards, was given on Sunday to ''The [...]

Byline: Claudia Puig The King has spoken. And not so haltingly. The film that caught everyone's attention and took the People's Choice award on Sunday at the 35th Toronto Film [...]

Byline: Compiled by Ian Saleh British drama 'The King's Speech' took several top honors at the 2011 Academy Awards. As Amy Argetsinger reported : 'The King's Speech,' a stirring British [...]

Feb 06, 2011 (WENN via COMTEX) -- THE KING'S SPEECH, BLACK SWAN and INCEPTION were the big winners at the Art Directors Guild Awards in Hollywood on Saturday night (05Feb11) [...]

Byline: Washington Post Staff The Screen Actors Guild Awards were held on Sunday, and Celebritology reported on all of the snubs and surprises. Here is a selection: The SAG Awards, [...]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. ¿ The British monarchy saga 'The King's Speech' leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture and acting honors for Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter [...]